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Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class on Russian Futurists, July, 1981.

by: Charters, Ann; Ginsberg, Allen

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics

Publication date: 1981-07-07 00:00:00

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Allen Ginsberg and Ann Charters class discussing and reading from Russian Futurists. Topics include Sergei Esenin's book Confessions of a Hooligan, Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in trousers," Mayakovsky's biography and prison story, rebellion's relationship to Punk, utopian heroic Communism, linguistic exploration, and Lenin and Trotsky on Russia's $150 million loan.